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And for giggles here is the latest GOES image from space. The nasty purple band is a little to the north of the Central Permian Basin. As of an hour ago Lubbock was reporting that they had no snow. I figure that may change as the day wears on.

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As you can see from the current radar image from Midland’s NWS we are quite out of the woods yet. At noon in Andrews the snows are a little lighter than they have been all morning. Our accumulation here has been around 3″-3 1/2″ so far. The snows started at 7:30am.

The Midland Amateur Radio Club has cancelled it’s meeting tonight. Andrews schools are closing at noon today. I think Big Spring, Grady, Stanton and a couple of others are closing early today but I am not sure of exact times. Most schools in the area have announced delayed starts already for in the morning. As of yet I haven’t heard about any governmental offices closing. I have heard that Lubbock is sending some snowplows to the Midland/Odessa area.

As you can imagine the roads are a slushy, icy mess. If you live in West Texas please remember that you don’t have a clue how to drive on this crap. PLEASE SLOW DOWN! Those oilfield trucks that are acting stupid on the roads today have much more insurance than you do.

I am not sure of the whole situation at this time as I am at work and haven’t got the new Twitter account properly filtered for information gathering. The NWS is predicting up to 8′ of accumulation today. I imagine it will freeze tonight making for very dangerous conditions tomorrow morning. IF YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE THEN PLEASE DON’T GO ANYWHERE.

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A monster cold front hit West Texas today. Earlier today we tie a 47 year old record high temp of 95 degrees. Tomorrow’s predicted high is 70 with a low tomorrow night of the high 30s to 40. Since about 8pm we’ve had sustained winds of 30+mph with a peak wind gust of 53 mph at the MAF weather office.

The picture is from a friend (I presume copyrighted) and shows the sandstorm as the front blew into Lubbock a few hours ago.